Planning and Development Practice

Introduction to Development Feasibility

Test whether a development idea stands up: capacity, cost and value logic, sensitivity, and a feasibility assessment a board can read.

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Course overview

Feasibility is where planning judgement meets arithmetic. This course teaches the structure of a development-feasibility assessment for planners and built-environment professionals who are not valuers: establishing developable area, testing capacity, setting out cost and value logic transparently, running simple sensitivities, and reporting the result with its uncertainty intact. The point is not to produce a valuation — it is to produce an honest, checkable assessment of whether a scheme is worth taking further.

Professional problem addressed

A team must decide whether to invest further in a site, but the numbers circulating are unsourced and the assumptions are invisible.

Real-world scenario

A housing developer asks whether a constrained urban parcel can carry enough units to justify the land price, and wants the assumptions visible so the board can challenge them.

What participants will learn

Establish net developable area from a constrained site.
Build a transparent capacity test.
Set out cost and value logic with sourced assumptions.
Run and interpret a simple sensitivity test.
Report feasibility with its uncertainty stated.

Skills developed

Capacity and yield reasoning
Transparent assumption management
Sensitivity thinking
Decision-focused reporting

Course outline

0 of 4 lessons open

Module 1 · 2 hours
From site area to developable area
Establish the only number the rest of the assessment depends on.
- Three areas that are routinely confused, and the cost of confusing them.
  - Deductions: buffers, easements, undevelopable slope, retained features.
  - Circulation and open-space allowances as planning judgements, not fixed rules.
  - Documenting the deduction chain so it can be audited.
  Practical task: Complete the deduction table for the supplied site.
  Video lesson: Not recorded — written lesson above
  Resource file not yet available. The written instructions on this page are complete and can be followed without any download.
Practical activity
Deduction table and annotated developable-area plan.
Expected output
Net developable area with every deduction justified.
Module 2 · 2 hours
Capacity and yield
Turn area into a defensible development quantum.
- Two independent routes to a yield figure, and why you use both.
  - Density-led estimation and its failure modes.
  - Layout-led test fits and what they reveal about the density assumption.
  - Reconciling the two and reporting the range.
  Video lesson: Not recorded — written lesson above
  Resource file not yet available. The written instructions on this page are complete and can be followed without any download.
Practical activity
Capacity range with both methods shown.
Expected output
Capacity range with method notes.
Module 3 · 4 hours
Cost, value and sensitivity
Make the money logic visible and testable.
- Inputs, calculations and outputs kept separate and sourced.
  - Input sheet with a source note against every figure.
  - Never hard-coding a number inside a formula.
  - Where planners should stop and a valuer should start.
  Practical task: Populate the supplied workbook with sourced assumptions.
  Video lesson: Not recorded — written lesson above
  Resource file not yet available. The written instructions on this page are complete and can be followed without any download.
- Which variables move the answer, and what to tell the client.
  - Single-variable sensitivity on the two or three dominant inputs.
  - Reading a break-even rather than a headline profit.
  - Communicating uncertainty without becoming useless.
  Video lesson: Not recorded — written lesson above
  Resource file not yet available. The written instructions on this page are complete and can be followed without any download.
Practical activity
Sensitivity table plus a written interpretation.
Expected output
Development-feasibility assessment.

Practical project brief

Setting and role: A constrained urban infill parcel. Planning consultant supporting a developer's investment decision..
Client or agency context: A mid-sized housing developer reporting to an internal investment board.
Study area: Approximately 1.8 hectares, supplied as synthetic training data.
Planning question: Is the scheme worth taking to concept design at the stated land price?

Constraints

An easement crossing the site
A retained mature tree group
A height-sensitive boundary to the north

Required analysis

Developable-area deduction
Capacity range by two methods
Simple appraisal with sensitivity on two variables

Required assumptions

All cost and value figures are training figures and must be labelled as such
State the assumed policy density position and that it requires local confirmation

Required outputs

Feasibility workbook
Development-feasibility assessment note

Data used: Synthetic training data · Learner-created data. Learner keeps their own work. No upload, submission or marking system is active.

Learner deliverable: Development-feasibility assessment

What a satisfactory output contains

Developable-area derivation
Capacity range with method
Assumption register with sources
Sensitivity result
Clear recommendation with stated risk

A reviewer can reproduce every number from the workbook without asking a question.

How to improve it: Replace unsourced figures, widen the sensitivity to the variable that dominates, and restate the conclusion as a decision rather than a description.

Suitable for internal review and training portfolios. It is not a valuation, not investment advice and not a statutory submission.

Quality-control checklist

Inputs separated from calculations
No hard-coded numbers in formulas
Deduction chain documented
Sensitivity covers the dominant variables
Training figures labelled as training figures
No valuation or investment-advice claim

Common mistakes and how to avoid them

Reporting a single yield figure with false precision.
Report a range and say what narrows it.
Burying assumptions inside spreadsheet formulas.
Keep an input sheet; reference it everywhere.
Straying into valuation advice.
State clearly where a qualified valuer must take over.

Assessment and review

Self-assessed workbook and note against the rubric. No grade, certificate or completion record is issued.

Technical accuracy
Arithmetic and areas reconcile.
Use of evidence
Every input carries a source note.
Quality of analysis
Capacity tested by two methods.
Communication
Conclusion legible to a non-technical board.
Identifying limitations
Dominant uncertainty named.

Reflection and improvement task

Change the two dominant assumptions to plausible pessimistic values. If the recommendation flips, rewrite the conclusion so it survives both cases.

Expected professional outcome

The learner can produce a transparent feasibility assessment and defend every number in it.

Government and planning-authority relevance

Agencies and estates teams use the same structure when testing whether a public site can deliver a programme, and when interrogating a developer's submitted figures.

Course details

Intended for: Practising town planners · Developers and development teams · Planning consultants · Government ministries, departments and agencies · Universities and research institutions
Professional roles: Planning consultant · Development manager · Public-sector estates officer · Project coordinator
Delivery format: Individual learning · Cohort delivery · Workshop format
Estimated learning time: 1 day equivalent
Software requirement: Spreadsheet software · Word processor
Prerequisites: Site Appraisal Fundamentals, or equivalent applied experience.
Required knowledge: Basic spreadsheet use · Ability to read a layout plan
Materials: Feasibility workbook template supplied with the exercise
Availability: Curriculum Designed

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Jurisdiction

General professional method

The method taught here is general professional practice and is transferable internationally. Statutory requirements, standards and approval procedures differ by country and by authority, and must be confirmed with the relevant planning authority. Nothing in this course is legal advice, and completing it does not qualify anyone to practise in any jurisdiction.

Software and data

Software is a course requirement only. Learners obtain it from the official provider. Ideeplan Consult hosts no installers, claims no software-provider endorsement or partnership, and no course grants software certification or a professional licence.

Synthetic site and assumption pack prepared for training
Learners may substitute publicly available local figures, clearly cited
No client financial information is used

Software access and licensing

Ideeplan Consult provides professional instruction, exercises, synthetic practice data and learning resources. It does not provide, purchase or pay for software licences on behalf of learners.

Required software

Spreadsheet software
Suggested version: Any modern spreadsheet application. Learners or their employers must obtain lawful access.
LibreOffice Calc (official website)
Alternative: Google Sheets — A browser-based alternative suitable for the calculation exercises. It is not identical to desktop spreadsheet software.
Word processor
Suggested version: Any modern word-processing application. Learners or their employers must obtain lawful access.
LibreOffice Writer (official website)

Learners or their employers must obtain lawful access to any required software before starting the practical exercises.
Only official software-provider websites are linked from this site. Ideeplan Consult does not host installers.
No shared accounts, passwords, activation keys or cracked software are provided, and software credentials are never collected or stored.
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Software licence costs are not included in any Ideeplan course fee, and no trial, student, educational or free licence is promised to be available.
Where a legitimate alternative is suitable, it is identified separately and is not claimed to be identical to the required software.
If a learner lacks the required software, a view-only demonstration or browser-based exercise may be offered where possible; this is never described as full hands-on software training.

Where to obtain project data

Every exercise in this course uses synthetic or Ideeplan-owned training data. This section explains how to replace that training data with lawful local project data in your own jurisdiction when you apply the method to a real site.

Free access and free reuse are different things. A dataset you can view or download is not automatically a dataset you may republish, adapt or use in a paid commercial deliverable.
Confirm the current licence on the source website before you reuse anything. Terms, prices and availability change without notice.
Ideeplan Consult does not host, redistribute or resell any third-party dataset, and links only to official or openly licensed public sources.
Never use private, confidential, pirated, scraped or otherwise unauthorised data. If a source requires a licence or a fee, obtain it properly or use an alternative.
Record the version, extraction date and coverage of every dataset you use, and cite it in the report and in the map credit block.
Ideeplan training coordinates are supplied on a named local grid (IDP-LOCAL-GRID) in metres. Local synthetic training grid in metres: not georeferenced to the Earth and not suitable for overlaying with real-world basemaps without a separately supplied transformation. Never attach an EPSG code, projection file or real-world CRS to training data that has none.
When you move to a real site, obtain the coordinate reference system from the survey or the mapping agency and record it in the drawing and the report. Do not infer or guess a CRS from the numbers.
If a public source becomes unavailable, changes its terms or starts charging, use the alternative listed here — the synthetic training dataset remains available for practice either way.

Data used in this course

Base mapping and street networks
Access: Varies by jurisdiction
What you need: A base map of roads, footways, buildings, water features and place names covering the study area.
Why it is required: Every site plan, constraints plan and analysis drawing needs a locational base so the reader can orient the proposal against real streets, blocks and landmarks.
Preferred source: The national mapping agency of the country in which the site sits — National mapping agency. National mapping agencies publish the most positionally reliable base mapping. Access and licensing differ by country: some publish open products, others license mapping commercially or to registered professionals only. Confirm the terms with the agency before reuse.
Alternative: OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Foundation and its contributors. Global, openly licensed and editable. Completeness varies sharply between areas.
Alternative: Geofabrik OpenStreetMap extracts — Geofabrik GmbH. Country and region extracts of OpenStreetMap data in GIS-ready formats.
Licence: OpenStreetMap data is published under the Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. National mapping agency products carry their own licence, which is often not open.
Permitted reuse: ODbL permits copying, adaptation and commercial use provided the source is attributed and any distributed derivative database is shared under the same licence. This share-alike condition is a real obligation on consultancy deliverables that distribute data, so read it before use. Agency mapping may prohibit reuse entirely without a licence.
Required attribution: For OpenStreetMap: "© OpenStreetMap contributors", with a reference to the ODbL. Agency mapping must carry the credit wording that agency specifies.
Date, version and coverage: OpenStreetMap is continuously edited, so record the extraction date. Coverage is global. Agency mapping has a stated revision cycle and covers that country only.
Scale, accuracy and limitations: OpenStreetMap has no guaranteed positional accuracy, no consistent capture scale and uneven attribute completeness; building footprints and address data are missing in many areas. It is suitable for context and analysis, not for boundary determination or measured survey.
How to access lawfully: View directly in the browser, or download a regional extract and open it in GIS software. Do not scrape the live map tiles in bulk.
How to cite: OpenStreetMap contributors (year) OpenStreetMap [dataset]. Extracted [date]. Licensed under ODbL 1.0. Available at openstreetmap.org.
Aerial and satellite imagery
Access: Open access
What you need: Recent imagery of the site and its surroundings for context, land-use reading and change detection.
Why it is required: Imagery evidences existing site conditions, vegetation, access and surrounding development at a known date, which supports the appraisal narrative.
Preferred source: Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery via the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem — European Union / European Space Agency.
Alternative: USGS EarthExplorer (Landsat archive) — United States Geological Survey. Long historical archive, useful for change over decades.
Alternative: OpenAerialMap — Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Openly licensed aerial imagery contributed by others. Coverage is patchy.
Licence: Sentinel data is published under the Copernicus open and free data policy. Landsat products from USGS are in the public domain. OpenAerialMap imagery carries the licence chosen by each contributor, commonly CC BY 4.0.
Permitted reuse: Copernicus and USGS products may be reused, adapted and used commercially with attribution. Imagery viewed inside a commercial web-map viewer is a different matter entirely: being able to see it in a browser does not license you to export, trace or publish it.
Required attribution: "Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [year]" for Sentinel; "Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey" for Landsat; the contributor credit and licence for OpenAerialMap.
Date, version and coverage: Record the acquisition date of the specific scene, not the download date. Sentinel-2 revisits every few days globally; Landsat covers 1972 onwards.
Scale, accuracy and limitations: Sentinel-2 is 10–20 m ground resolution and Landsat is 30 m, so neither shows individual building detail. Cloud cover, shadow and seasonal vegetation change all affect interpretation. Imagery is not a survey and must not be measured from as though it were.
How to access lawfully: Register a free account with the provider, search by area and date, filter by cloud cover, then download the scene. Do not download tiles from a commercial basemap outside its terms.
How to cite: European Union / ESA / Copernicus (year) Sentinel-2 scene [ID], acquired [date] [satellite image]. Accessed [date].
Elevation and terrain
Access: Open access
What you need: A digital elevation model for slope, aspect, drainage direction and levels context.
Why it is required: Slope and drainage govern developable area, road gradients, earthworks cost and surface-water risk, so terrain shapes the layout before anything is drawn.
Preferred source: Copernicus DEM via the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem — European Union / European Space Agency.
Alternative: NASA SRTM via USGS EarthExplorer — NASA / USGS. Approximately 30 m global elevation, widely used for screening.
Alternative: OpenTopography — OpenTopography Facility. High-resolution lidar where a survey has been flown and released; coverage is limited and per-dataset licences apply.
Licence: SRTM products from USGS are public domain. Copernicus DEM instances are released under the Copernicus licence, which permits reuse with attribution. OpenTopography datasets carry the licence set by each data owner.
Permitted reuse: Reuse, adaptation and commercial use are permitted for the public-domain and Copernicus products with the required credit. Confirm the per-dataset terms on OpenTopography before including a lidar derivative in a paid deliverable.
Required attribution: Credit the mission and steward, for example "Contains modified Copernicus DEM data" or "SRTM data courtesy of NASA/USGS".
Date, version and coverage: SRTM was captured in 2000 and does not reflect later earthworks. Copernicus DEM is compiled from more recent acquisitions. Both are near-global; note the tile version.
Scale, accuracy and limitations: Global DEMs are roughly 30 m horizontal resolution with vertical error typically measured in metres, and they represent surface height including tree canopy and buildings, not bare ground. They are screening tools only and never a substitute for a topographic survey for design levels.
How to access lawfully: Register with the portal, select tiles covering the study area, download, then reproject into the local projected coordinate system before deriving slope.
How to cite: [Mission] (year) [Product name], tile [ID] [dataset]. Accessed [date]. Available at [official URL].
Population, housing and socio-economic statistics
Access: Varies by jurisdiction
What you need: Census or survey figures for population, households, household size, tenure, employment and deprivation for the study area.
Why it is required: Need assessments, demand forecasts, catchment tests and infrastructure sizing all rest on published population and household evidence rather than assertion.
Preferred source: The national statistical office of the country concerned — National statistical office. Census and official survey outputs are the defensible baseline because they are the figures an authority and an inspector will recognise.
Alternative: WorldPop — WorldPop, University of Southampton. Modelled gridded population where census small-area data is unavailable.
Alternative: UN Data — United Nations Statistics Division. Comparable national indicators for context and benchmarking.
Licence: WorldPop datasets are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. National statistical outputs carry the office's own terms; many are open with attribution, some restrict redistribution of microdata.
Permitted reuse: CC BY 4.0 statistics may be reused commercially with attribution. Microdata and small-area tables are often released only under a licence agreement or safeguarded access, and must never be re-identified or redistributed.
Required attribution: Cite the office, the table or dataset reference and the reference year beneath every derived table and chart.
Date, version and coverage: Record the census or survey reference year, not the download year, and state the geography level used, for example ward or enumeration area.
Scale, accuracy and limitations: Census data ages quickly between rounds, small-area figures may be rounded or suppressed to protect confidentiality, and modelled gridded population is an estimate that can be materially wrong at neighbourhood level. Do not present modelled counts as observed counts.
How to access lawfully: Download the published table or dataset from the statistical office's release page, or the gridded raster from the producer's portal.
How to cite: [Statistical office] (year) [Table or dataset title], reference year [year] [dataset]. Accessed [date]. Available at [official URL].
Cadastral, land-tenure and ownership information
Access: Paid or licensed
What you need: Parcel boundaries, plot numbers, registered interests and tenure status for the site and adjoining land.
Why it is required: Site extent, ransom strips, access rights and assembly risk cannot be assessed without knowing who holds what, and multi-ownership changes the phasing strategy.
Preferred source: The land registry or lands bureau with jurisdiction over the site — Land registry / lands bureau. Only the registry can confirm a registered interest. Many registries provide official searches for a fee.
Alternative: The local planning authority's public application register — Local planning authority. Site boundaries submitted with previous applications indicate extent, though never ownership.
Licence: Registry information is normally supplied under a licence for a stated purpose, and is frequently charged per title or per search.
Permitted reuse: Reuse is usually limited to the transaction or instruction for which the search was made. Redistributing register extracts, republishing parcel data or placing ownership information on a public website is commonly prohibited and may also breach data-protection law where an owner is a living individual.
Required attribution: State the registry, the title or parcel reference and the search date, and keep the extract itself in the confidential appendix rather than the public document.
Date, version and coverage: Registry information is correct only as at the search date and coverage is limited to registered land, which in many jurisdictions is a minority of all land.
Scale, accuracy and limitations: Registry boundaries are often general boundaries, not precise legal lines, and unregistered, customary or communal tenure may not appear at all. Never present a cadastral extract as a boundary determination.
How to access lawfully: Apply through the registry's official search service and pay the prescribed fee. Never use an unofficial copy, a scraped parcel dataset or a leaked register.
How to cite: [Land registry] (year) Official search of title [reference], searched [date]. Reproduced under licence.
Planning policy, allocations and application history
Access: Public, view-only
What you need: The adopted development plan and its policies map, supplementary guidance, site allocations and the planning history of the site and its neighbours.
Why it is required: Policy compliance is the test the proposal will be judged against, and nearby decisions show how the authority has actually applied that policy.
Preferred source: The local planning authority with jurisdiction over the site — Local planning authority. Most authorities publish the plan, the policies map and a searchable application register on their own website.
Alternative: The national or regional government planning portal for the country concerned — National or regional planning body. Where a local plan is unpublished, regional policy and national guidance still apply.
Licence: Policy documents are usually published for public inspection under the authority's copyright, with reuse terms that vary and are often limited to non-commercial reproduction with acknowledgement.
Permitted reuse: Quoting a policy with a citation is normal professional practice. Republishing whole documents, policies-map data layers or bulk application records generally requires the authority's permission, and scraping a register is not an acceptable substitute for asking.
Required attribution: Cite the authority, plan title, adoption date and the policy reference for every policy relied on.
Date, version and coverage: Plans are replaced and policies are superseded, so record the adoption date and confirm the plan is the one currently in force. Coverage is that authority's administrative area only.
Scale, accuracy and limitations: A published policies map may be indicative rather than definitive at parcel level, emerging plans carry limited weight, and the register may lag current decisions. Confirm anything decisive with the authority in writing.
How to access lawfully: Download the plan from the authority's website and search the application register by address or reference. Request the policies-map data layer from the authority if you need it in GIS.
How to cite: [Authority] (year) [Plan title], adopted [date], Policy [reference]. Available at [official URL] [accessed date].

Where no suitable public source exists in your jurisdiction, complete the exercise with the synthetic training dataset and record the data gap as a limitation in your report. Stating a limitation honestly is professional practice; inventing data is not.

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Authored by Ideeplan Consult. All cost and value figures in the exercise are synthetic training figures and are labelled as such.

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Practical project brief
Sets the professional situation, the role the learner takes and what must be produced.
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Brief
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Written brief shown on this page
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Data classification
Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
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Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported
4 — One brief governs the whole course: every lesson exercise contributes to the same final deliverable.
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- A constrained urban infill parcel.
- Your role: Planning consultant supporting a developer's investment decision.
- Study area: Approximately 1.8 hectares, supplied as synthetic training data.
- Planning question: Is the scheme worth taking to concept design at the stated land price?
- Available information: Synthetic site plan with constraints
- Available information: Synthetic cost and value assumption sheet, clearly labelled as training figures
- Required analysis: Developable-area deduction
- Required analysis: Capacity range by two methods
- Required analysis: Simple appraisal with sensitivity on two variables
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Licence or ownership
Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported
4 — Scenario framing applies to every lesson in the course.
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Module 1 learner worksheet — From site area to developable area
Lists the practical steps the learner carries out in this module, in order.
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Net developable area with every deduction justified.
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1 — Supports the 1 lessons in module 1, which build one shared output.
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- Gross, net and net developable — Complete the deduction table for the supplied site.
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Module 2 learner worksheet — Capacity and yield
Lists the practical steps the learner carries out in this module, in order.
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Capacity range with method notes.
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- Density-led and layout-led capacity — Capacity range with both methods shown.
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Module 3 learner worksheet — Cost, value and sensitivity
Lists the practical steps the learner carries out in this module, in order.
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Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment.
Lessons supported
2 — Supports the 2 lessons in module 3, which build one shared output.
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- Structuring the workbook — Populate the supplied workbook with sourced assumptions.
- Sensitivity and interpretation — Sensitivity table plus a written interpretation.
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Task checklist
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Development-feasibility assessment
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- Feasibility workbook
- Development-feasibility assessment note
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Example data and drawing base

Supplied synthetic site plan. Any figures used in a template are teaching assumptions, not market evidence. Local costs, policies, standards and valuation assumptions must be independently confirmed before any of this is applied to a real project.

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Resource type: Capacity-study spreadsheet
Format: CSV table with labelled assumptions (planned)
Status: Planned
Data classification: Synthetic demonstration data
Licence or ownership: Synthetic demonstration material prepared by Ideeplan Consult. No client file, personal information, private agency document or unreleased project drawing is used.
Related deliverable: Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported: 4 — One demonstration data base is used by every lesson so results stay comparable.
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Demonstration data item	What it contains and how it is used
Data ownership and licence	Synthetic training data prepared and owned by Ideeplan Consult. It is fictional: it is not a real client project, a real site or a real location, and it must not be presented as one. Free to study on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Module 1 input — From site area to developable area	Supplied synthetic site plan.
Module 2 input — Capacity and yield	Net developable area.
Module 3 input — Cost, value and sensitivity	Completed workbook.
Lawful sourcing where real data is substituted	Where a learner substitutes real data, use only openly licensed or lawfully obtained sources, record the publisher, dataset title, version and access date, and cite them in the final deliverable. Do not use restricted, confidential or personal data.

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Analysis and calculation template
Structures the analysis so assumptions are visible and checkable. Any figures used in a template are teaching assumptions, not market evidence. Local costs, policies, standards and valuation assumptions must be independently confirmed before any of this is applied to a real project.
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Resource type
Capacity-study spreadsheet
Format
CSV workbook with labelled assumptions (planned)
Status
Planned
Data classification
Synthetic demonstration data
Licence or ownership
Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported
4 — The same analysis structure is completed progressively through the course.
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- Record every assumption on its own labelled row, with the source or reason beside it.
- Module 1 working section — Net developable area with every deduction justified.
- Module 2 working section — Capacity range with method notes.
- Module 3 working section — Development-feasibility assessment.
- Required output carried into the analysis — Feasibility workbook
- Required output carried into the analysis — Development-feasibility assessment note
- Check row: totals, units and areas reconcile before the result is carried into the deliverable.
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Final deliverable template
Sets the expected structure and presentation standard for Development-feasibility assessment.
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Resource type
Policy-assessment template
Format
Structured document outline (planned)
Status
Planned
Data classification
Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
Licence or ownership
Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported
4 — The final deliverable draws on every module output.
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- Final named deliverable — Development-feasibility assessment
- Section 1 — Net developable area with every deduction justified.
- Section 2 — Capacity range with method notes.
- Section 3 — Development-feasibility assessment.
- Must be present — Feasibility workbook
- Must be present — Development-feasibility assessment note
- Presentation and submission standard — Learner keeps their own work. No upload, submission or marking system is active. Workbook with a clean input sheet; note of three to five pages with a summary table.
- Sources and citations: list every dataset, publisher, version and access date used, and state clearly where synthetic Ideeplan training data was used.
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Quality-control checklist
Professional checks to run before the work is treated as finished.
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Resource type
Checklist
Format
Written checklist shown on this page
Status
Draft
Data classification
Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
Licence or ownership
Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported
4 — Quality control is applied to the whole submission, not to a single lesson.
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- Inputs separated from calculations
- No hard-coded numbers in formulas
- Deduction chain documented
- Sensitivity covers the dominant variables
- Training figures labelled as training figures
- No valuation or investment-advice claim
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Marking and review rubric

States what a satisfactory professional standard looks like for each criterion.

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Resource type: Marking rubric
Format: Written rubric shown on this page
Status: Draft
Data classification: Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
Licence or ownership: Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable: Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported: 4 — One rubric reviews the final deliverable produced across all modules.
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Criterion	Satisfactory standard
Technical accuracy	Arithmetic and areas reconcile.
Use of evidence	Every input carries a source note.
Quality of analysis	Capacity tested by two methods.
Communication	Conclusion legible to a non-technical board.
Identifying limitations	Dominant uncertainty named.

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Correction-task sheet
Common professional mistakes and the correction the learner practises.
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Resource type
Correction-task sheet
Format
Written task sheet shown on this page
Status
Draft
Data classification
Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
Licence or ownership
Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported
4 — Correction tasks address mistakes that can appear anywhere in the course.
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- Reporting a single yield figure with false precision. — Report a range and say what narrows it.
- Burying assumptions inside spreadsheet formulas. — Keep an input sheet; reference it everywhere.
- Straying into valuation advice. — State clearly where a qualified valuer must take over.
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Submission guidance
How the finished work should be assembled and presented for professional review.
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Resource type
Checklist
Format
Written guidance shown on this page
Status
Draft
Data classification
Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
Licence or ownership
Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported
4 — Submission guidance covers the single final deliverable.
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Data dictionary and data-sourcing note

Describes what data the course uses, where each item comes from, and what may lawfully be done with it.

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Resource type: Synthetic dataset
Format: Written data dictionary shown on this page
Status: Draft
Data classification: Synthetic demonstration data
Licence or ownership: Synthetic demonstration material prepared by Ideeplan Consult. No client file, personal information, private agency document or unreleased project drawing is used.
Related deliverable: Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported: 4 — The data dictionary describes the one demonstration data base used by every lesson, so results stay comparable.
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Data item	Source, licence and permitted reuse
Synthetic site and assumption pack prepared for training	Provenance category recorded for this course: Synthetic training data; Learner-created data
Learners may substitute publicly available local figures, clearly cited	Provenance category recorded for this course: Synthetic training data; Learner-created data
No client financial information is used	Provenance category recorded for this course: Synthetic training data; Learner-created data
Module 1 input — Supplied synthetic site plan.	Net developable area with every deduction justified.
Module 2 input — Net developable area.	Capacity range with method notes.
Module 3 input — Completed workbook.	Development-feasibility assessment.
Synthetic material label	Valid synthetic geospatial training data — fictional site, not a real client project.
Public data used instead of the synthetic pack	Permitted only where the publisher's own licence allows it. Record the publisher, licence name and version, release date, coverage and date accessed on the output itself.
Excluded outright	Confidential client files, personal data, private agency documents, unreleased drawings, and any scraped or forwarded dataset.

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Step-by-step working guide
The order of work from opening the data to finishing the deliverable, written so it can be followed without a video or a download.
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Resource type
Worksheet
Format
Written working guide shown on this page
Status
Draft
Data classification
Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
Licence or ownership
Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported
4 — One working guide runs the whole course: each module's steps feed the next module's input.
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- Step 1 — From site area to developable area: start from Supplied synthetic site plan.
- Step 2 — carry out the work: Deduction table and annotated developable-area plan.
- Step 3 — stop and check before moving on: Each deduction has a stated basis; Arithmetic checks. You should now hold Net developable area with every deduction justified.
- Step 4 — Capacity and yield: start from Net developable area.
- Step 5 — carry out the work: Capacity range with both methods shown.
- Step 6 — stop and check before moving on: Two methods used; Range explained. You should now hold Capacity range with method notes.
- Step 7 — Cost, value and sensitivity: start from Completed workbook.
- Step 8 — carry out the work: Sensitivity table plus a written interpretation.
- Step 9 — stop and check before moving on: Assumptions sourced; Sensitivity shown; Limits of the advice stated. You should now hold Development-feasibility assessment.
- Finish: assemble Development-feasibility assessment. Workbook with a clean input sheet; note of three to five pages with a summary table.
- Software screens: Authentic software screen capture required — not yet available. The written steps above are complete on their own and do not depend on a screenshot.
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Worked-example outline
Describes, in words, what a satisfactory finished submission contains so the learner can compare their own work against it.
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Resource type
Brief
Format
Written outline shown on this page — no example file is claimed
Status
Draft
Data classification
Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
Licence or ownership
Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported
4 — The worked-example outline describes the finished work the whole course builds towards.
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- The finished work is Development-feasibility assessment.
- It must contain: Developable-area derivation
- It must contain: Capacity range with method
- It must contain: Assumption register with sources
- It must contain: Sensitivity result
- It must contain: Clear recommendation with stated risk
- Satisfactory standard: A reviewer can reproduce every number from the workbook without asking a question.
- A reviewer will look for: Every input has a source note
- A reviewer will look for: Capacity is a justified range
- A reviewer will look for: Conclusion states its dominant risk
- Expected outcome: The learner can produce a transparent feasibility assessment and defend every number in it.
- Route to improvement: Replace unsourced figures, widen the sensitivity to the variable that dominates, and restate the conclusion as a decision rather than a description.
- No worked-example file, drawing or model is offered. This outline is the comparison standard.
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Citation and attribution guide
How to record and cite every data source used, and what may not be used at all.
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Resource type
Checklist
Format
Written guide shown on this page
Status
Draft
Data classification
Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
Licence or ownership
Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
Related deliverable
Development-feasibility assessment
Lessons supported
4 — Citation and attribution apply to every output produced in the course.
Access
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- What data is needed: the course lists its own data requirements above. Work through that list before opening any software.
- Official or open source: use the dataset published by the body that actually produced it, reached through that body's own website. Ideeplan Consult names no agency, portal or licence on your behalf — confirm the publisher yourself.
- Alternatives: where no official dataset is open, the supplied synthetic training pack is the alternative for this exercise. Do not substitute scraped, forwarded or privately shared data.
- Access type: record whether the dataset was openly downloadable, request-based, licensed on payment, or supplied only for viewing. Write this down at the moment you obtain it.
- Licence and permitted reuse: read the licence on the download page and record its exact name and version. Downloadable does not mean free to reuse. If the licence does not permit your use, do not use the data.
- Attribution: reproduce the attribution wording the publisher asks for, word for word, on the map, table or report page where the data appears.
- Version and geographic coverage: record the edition or release date and the exact area covered. Data that stops at the study-area boundary must be shown as stopping there.
- Accuracy limitations: record the capture scale, resolution, currency and any stated accuracy. Do not present data at a scale finer than the source supports.
- Lawful access steps: obtain data through the publisher's own access route, keep the confirmation or licence page, and keep any conditions attached to it.
- Citation format: Publisher. Dataset title. Edition or release date. Licence name and version. Date accessed. Access route. Use the same pattern for every source in the deliverable so the reader can retrace it.
- Synthetic material carries its own label instead of a citation: Valid synthetic geospatial training data — fictional site, not a real client project.
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Media status

Video lessons for this course

Video lessons: Not recorded
Narration: Professional narration — planned, not produced
Captions: Not yet produced
Transcript: Not yet produced
Production plan: Prepared for professional review
Enrolment, payment and downloads: Disabled

Video lesson: Not recorded. The written lesson on this page is complete and can be read in full without a video, an account, enrolment or payment.

Real professional classroom experience — every lesson

Applies to every future Academy lesson, software-based or not. The finished lesson presents as authentic professional training, professionally narrated and screen-led: video + written guide + supporting data + practical task + quality checklist + final named deliverable.

Lesson structure

1.Professional introduction.
2.Realistic project situation.
3.Learner role within that situation.
4.Problem statement.
5.Learning objectives.
6.Required software and data.
7.Step-by-step demonstration.
8.Explanation of the professional reasoning behind each action.
9.Practical learner task.
10.Checkpoint or pause activity.
11.Common mistake and its correction.
12.Quality-control review.
13.Final recap.
14.Named learner deliverable.

Video requirements

Professional narration that is clear, natural and paced for instruction, synchronised with the screen action.
Authentic screen recording from the actual software, with visible menus, tools, panels, commands, settings and outputs.
Natural cursor movement and deliberate pacing, with a clear explanation of why each action is taken.
Realistic corrections and troubleshooting shown, not edited away.
Clear 16:9 screen capture.
Captions and a complete transcript.
Chapter titles and lesson sections.
A small presenter window only where useful; it never covers technical content and is hidden on mobile or dense technical screens.

Never produced as a lesson

Automated slideshows.
Generic screen tours.
Silent software demonstrations.
Marketing videos presented as lessons.
AI-avatar presentations.
Simulated software tutorials.
Fast montages without explanation.
An invented tutor, instructor identity, voice, recording, thumbnail or completion status.

Lessons use only synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned examples. No confidential client information is used.

No genuine professional recording exists yet. Until one does, every lesson remains “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.” Enrolment, payments, certificates and protected learner access stay disabled during this production stage.

Professional narration and screen-first production

Every Academy lesson is planned as a professionally narrated, screen-led practical lesson with captions and a complete transcript.
No AI avatar, virtual presenter or artificial talking head is used, and no named person is imitated. No lesson is described as human-narrated, instructor-led by a named person or personally presented unless that is factually true.
No instructor identity is published until a real, named professional has recorded and approved the lesson.
Recordings are screen-first: the GIS view, planning drawing, AutoCAD or Revit workspace or document remains the main subject of the frame.
Any presenter picture-in-picture normally occupies about 8–10% of the frame, never covers technical content, and is reduced or hidden on small screens.
The Principal Consultant portrait is reserved for approved introductions and conclusions. It is never used as a repeated course thumbnail, and the Academy remains company-first.

No lesson has been recorded and no narration has been produced. Scripts exist as production plans only, and every lesson video status remains “Not recorded”.

Demonstration material is synthetic, publicly licensed or owned by Ideeplan Consult. No confidential client file, unauthorised agency dataset or private project information is used.

Methods are jurisdiction-neutral. Learners must confirm local laws, policies and technical standards before applying them to a real project.

A production plan describes how a lesson would be recorded. It is not a recording, and it does not create an enrolment, account, payment or reserved place.

4 lesson production plans · suggested recording time about 38 minutes in total (a planning estimate, not a recorded duration) · every lesson video status: Not recorded.

Lesson 1 · Video lesson: Not recorded.
Gross, net and net developable
Learning objective
Three areas that are routinely confused, and the cost of confusing them.
Narration focus
Deductions: buffers, easements, undevelopable slope, retained features.
Screen action
Deduction table and annotated developable-area plan.
Required software
Spreadsheet software, Word processor
Example data
Synthetic demonstration data prepared by Ideeplan Consult for this module.
Expected learner output
Complete the deduction table for the supplied site.
Suggested length
About 8 minutes (planning estimate)
Captions and transcript
Required before professional review
Narration
Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
1. 1.Deductions: buffers, easements, undevelopable slope, retained features.
2. 2.Circulation and open-space allowances as planning judgements, not fixed rules.
3. 3.Documenting the deduction chain so it can be audited.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to Spreadsheet software, Word processor, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 2 · Video lesson: Not recorded.
Density-led and layout-led capacity
Learning objective
Two independent routes to a yield figure, and why you use both.
Narration focus
Density-led estimation and its failure modes.
Screen action
Capacity range with both methods shown.
Required software
Spreadsheet software, Word processor
Example data
Synthetic demonstration data prepared by Ideeplan Consult for this module.
Expected learner output
Capacity range with method notes.
Suggested length
About 10 minutes (planning estimate)
Captions and transcript
Required before professional review
Narration
Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
1. 1.Density-led estimation and its failure modes.
2. 2.Layout-led test fits and what they reveal about the density assumption.
3. 3.Reconciling the two and reporting the range.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to Spreadsheet software, Word processor, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 3 · Video lesson: Not recorded.
Structuring the workbook
Learning objective
Inputs, calculations and outputs kept separate and sourced.
Narration focus
Input sheet with a source note against every figure.
Screen action
Sensitivity table plus a written interpretation.
Required software
Spreadsheet software, Word processor
Example data
Synthetic demonstration data prepared by Ideeplan Consult for this module.
Expected learner output
Populate the supplied workbook with sourced assumptions.
Suggested length
About 12 minutes (planning estimate)
Captions and transcript
Required before professional review
Narration
Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
1. 1.Input sheet with a source note against every figure.
2. 2.Never hard-coding a number inside a formula.
3. 3.Where planners should stop and a valuer should start.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to Spreadsheet software, Word processor, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 4 · Video lesson: Not recorded.
Sensitivity and interpretation
Learning objective
Which variables move the answer, and what to tell the client.
Narration focus
Single-variable sensitivity on the two or three dominant inputs.
Screen action
Sensitivity table plus a written interpretation.
Required software
Spreadsheet software, Word processor
Example data
Synthetic demonstration data prepared by Ideeplan Consult for this module.
Expected learner output
Development-feasibility assessment.
Suggested length
About 8 minutes (planning estimate)
Captions and transcript
Required before professional review
Narration
Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
1. 1.Single-variable sensitivity on the two or three dominant inputs.
2. 2.Reading a break-even rather than a headline profit.
3. 3.Communicating uncertainty without becoming useless.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to Spreadsheet software, Word processor, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.

Course production standard

Recordings are screen-first: the planning drawing, GIS view, AutoCAD or Revit workspace stays the main subject of the frame.
Any presenter picture-in-picture normally occupies no more than about 8–10% of the frame and never covers maps, legends, drawings, dimensions or annotations.
On mobile and on dense technical screens the presenter window is reduced further or hidden entirely.
The Principal Consultant portrait is reserved for approved introductions, explanations and conclusions. It is not used as a generic thumbnail for every course.
Narration is planned for professional human delivery. No AI narration, AI presenter or recorded lesson exists today.

No lesson has been recorded. Every lesson media status is “Not recorded”.

Any example data used in teaching is synthetic, publicly licensed or owned by Ideeplan Consult, and is clearly labelled as demonstration data. No client file, confidential document or unauthorised project material is used.

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Introduction to Development Feasibility

Written teaching content: available for review

Written course content

Course overview

Professional problem addressed

Real-world scenario

What participants will learn

Skills developed

Course outline

From site area to developable area

Gross, net and net developable

Capacity and yield

Density-led and layout-led capacity

Cost, value and sensitivity

Structuring the workbook

Sensitivity and interpretation

Practical project brief

Constraints

Required analysis

Required assumptions

Required outputs

Learner deliverable: Development-feasibility assessment

What a satisfactory output contains

Quality-control checklist

Common mistakes and how to avoid them

Assessment and review

Reflection and improvement task

Expected professional outcome

Government and planning-authority relevance

Related pilot courses

Site Appraisal Fundamentals

Plot Subdivision and Road Hierarchy

Enrolment is not currently available. This course is still undergoing content, media and professional review.

Outstanding before enrolment could open

Submission access is not currently available

Assessment formats planned for the Academy

Outstanding before completion or a certificate could exist

Resources for this course

Practical project brief

Client-style instruction and problem statement

Module 1 learner worksheet — From site area to developable area

Module 2 learner worksheet — Capacity and yield

Module 3 learner worksheet — Cost, value and sensitivity

Task checklist

Example data and drawing base

Analysis and calculation template

Final deliverable template

Quality-control checklist

Marking and review rubric

Correction-task sheet

Submission guidance

Data dictionary and data-sourcing note

Step-by-step working guide

Worked-example outline

Citation and attribution guide

Video lessons for this course

Real professional classroom experience — every lesson

Professional narration and screen-first production

Gross, net and net developable

Density-led and layout-led capacity

Structuring the workbook

Sensitivity and interpretation

Course production standard

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